Human rights

Iran-HRM – Labor activist Reyhaneh Ansarinejad has remained in detention on remand in Evin Prison’s Intelligence Ministry Ward 209. She has been denied family visits and contact. According to an informed source, her young daughter, who depends on her mother as the only parent, is now facing financial hardship and cannot regularly visit due to their economic situation. Intelligence Ministry …

HRW – During the last week of June, Iranian authorities intensified their crackdown on civil society with a new wave of politically-motivated arrests and sentences against journalists and activists, including Vida Rabani, Ahmad Reza Haeri, Amir Salar Davoudi, and Masoud Bastani. On July 4, Emtedad news outlet reported that the Evin prosecutor’s office summoned Masoud Bastani, a journalist. Two days earlier, on …

Iran-HRM – Nearly two months after being arrested, labor activists Asadollahi and Keyvan Mohtadi remain in detention in Ward 209 of Evin Prison controlled by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry. According to an informed source, “the labor activist couple has been denied the right to make phone calls with their families since almost 2 weeks ago.” Their families went to Evin prison …

Iran-HRM – Teachers’ rights activist Masoud Nikkhah is still in detention since May 1, when he was arrested for taking part in a peaceful teachers’ protest in the western city of Marivan. He has been taken to Ward 209 of Evin Prison in Tehran, controlled by Iran’s Intelligence Ministry. Mr. Nikkhah has not had any contact with his family. Masoud …

RFL/RE – Jailed Iranian civil activist Zartosht Ahmadi Ragheb has said in a message that he rejected a proposal by prison officials to seek a pardon. In a message published online on July 4, Ragheb, who is imprisoned in Rajaeeshahr prison, west of Tehran, said that a delegation from the prosecutor’s office visited him twice last week and asked him if he …

Iranwire – Women who attend work for the local council without being suitably veiled can expect to be sent home without pay, the governor of Fars province has said. Speaking at a meeting of the Fars Province Administrative Council on Sunday evening, Mohammad Hadi Imaniyeh gave all departments of the local authority a deadline of the end of July to …

Iran-HRM – Nearly 800 days after Kurdish political prisoner Zeinab Jalalian was banished to Yazd prison she has been deprived of the right to visit her family and lawyer. She has also been denied medical care. According to a source from Iran, “about 20 days ago, Ms. Jalalian’s elderly parents went from a long distance from Mako – Dim Qashlaq …

Shabtabnews – In a letter IOPHR urged the Members of the Belgian Parliament to reconsider and prevent a judicial cooperation between the Kingdom of Belgium and the Islamic Republic of Iran . The letter outlined many of the dangerous consequences of the approval of such cooperation for the future of Belgium and Europe. IOPHR also in its letter stated that …

Iran-HRM – A number of Sunni religious prisoners in the Rajai Shahr prison of Karaj went on a hunger strike in protest of the Tehran prosecutor’s “insult” during his visit to this prison. Three Sunni prisoners identified as Yasin Abbas Jobi, Nooraziz Darabi, and Sadeq Ayyubi started a 3-day hunger on Thursday, June 3. On Friday evening, all the Sunni …

iran-hrm – June 2022, was marked by a staggering number of executions and human rights violations in Iran in step with the growing discontent and the spread of popular protests. The Iranian regime also ramped up clampdown to stifle the society which has already been angry over economic hardships. Last month the Iranian regime launched a violent crackdown against civil …